The country has the world’s highest death rate from chronic disease caused by sugary drinks, and Mexico City’s secretary of health, Armando Ahued Ortega, expressed concern that the high rate of diabetes is causing Mexico’s health system to collapse.

A few years ago, those concerned about public health in Mexico saw disaster looming and fixed their sights on soda.

Seriously though, as a kid, soda was part of every meal. And back then, I never saw that as a bad thing. I remember that my grandmother used to keep about three cases of glass Coca-Cola bottles in the corner somewhere. Each case held about 48 bottles, and whenever we ran out of soda, we would take a case full of empty glass bottles and trade it in for a new case of glass bottles full of Coca-Cola. And it would only cost us about $5-$10, or 50-100 pesos (Mexican currency).

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